Here we have new papers from the North Carolina Collection that have never been microfilmed! The North Carolina Collection originated in 1844 and is the largest traditional collection of library materials for any state. Learn more about the NCC here!

These additions include:

• The Courier (Asheboro, N.C.) – 1917-1918
• The Randolph Herald (Asheborough, N.C.) – 1848
• The Daily Advance (Asheville, N.C.) – 1884
• The Mountain Voice (Bakersville, N.C.) – 1881
• Our Fatherless Ones (Barium Springs, N.C.) – 1903-1912
• The Blowing Rocket (Blowing Rock, N.C.) – 1942
• The Chapel Hillian (Chapel Hill, N.C.) – 1890-1891
• The Clarkton Express (Clarkton, N.C.) – 1907
• Recorder and North Carolina Tobacco Journal (Durham, N.C.) – 1883
• The Daily News (Goldsboro, N.C.) – 1865
• Goldsboro Daily Argus (Goldsboro, N.C.) – 1889-1892
• The Eastern Reflector (Greenville, N.C.) – 1898
• The Henderson Times (Hendersonville, N.C.) – 1863
• The Western North Carolina Times (Hendersonville, N.C.) – 1896
• The Daily Free Press (Kinston, N.C.) – 1908-1909
• The Laurinburg Enterprise (Laurinburg, N.C.) – 1881
• The Monroe Enquirer (Monroe, N.C.) – 1875-1881
• Ocracoke Island Beacon (Ocracoke, N.C.) – 1941
• The Orphans’ Friend and Masonic Journal (Oxford, N.C.) – 1881-1912
• The Church Intelligencer (Raleigh, N.C.) – 1862-1865
• The Menagerie (Raleigh, N.C.) – 1857
• The Farmer and Mechanic (Raleigh, N.C.) – 1877
• The Friend and Templar (Raleigh, N.C.) – 1880
• Semi-Weekly Standard (Raleigh, N.C.) – 1865
• The Star, and North-Carolina State Gazette (Raleigh, N.C.) – 1818
• The Reidsville Times (Reidsville, N.C.) – 1882
• The Roanoke-Chowan Times (Rich Square, N.C.) – 1907-1910
• The Rockingham Rocket (Rockingham, N.C.) – 1887
• Salisbury Evening Post (Salisbury, N.C.) – 1906
• The Daily Union Banner (Salisbury, N.C.) – 1866
• Shelby Review (Shelby, N.C.) – 1893
• The Sandhill Citizen (Southern Pines, N.C.) – 1917
• The Daily Landmark (Statesville, N.C.) – 1879
• The Wadesboro Intelligencer (Wadesboro, N.C.) – 1886
• The Dew Drop (Wadesborough, N.C.) – 1853
• The Colonist (Warm Springs, N.C.) – 1870-1871
• The Morning Star (Wilmington, N.C.) – 1908
• Wilmington Chronicle (Wilmington, N.C.) – 1849
• The Wilmington Herald (Wilmington, N.C.) – 1854-1855
• Wilmington Journal (Wilmington, N.C.) – 1880-1894

This week we have another 70 titles up on DigitalNC including over 1,000 issues of The Robesonian, 1,000 issues of The Western Sentinel, 3,000 issues of The Reidsville Review, 4,000 issues of The News and Observer, and almost 4,000 issues of the Salisbury Evening Post!

In the March 8th, 1914 issue of The News and Observers we have an article detailing a practice game played by the Baltimore Orioles while in Fayetteville. This happens to be the game where a 19 year old George Herman “Babe” Ruth hit his first home run as a professional baseball player. Ruth was also given his iconic nickname “Babe” while in Fayetteville on this trip.

The News and Observer, March 8th, 1914

Image via The Fayetteville Observer

Over the next year, we’ll be adding millions of newspaper images to DigitalNC. These images were originally digitized a number of years ago in a partnership with Newspapers.com. That project focused on scanning microfilmed papers published before 1923 held by the North Carolina Collection in Wilson Special Collections Library. While you can currently search all of those pre-1923 issues on Newspapers.com, over the next year we will also make them available in our newspaper database as well. This will allow you to search that content alongside the 2 million pages already on our site – all completely open access and free to use.

This week’s additions include:

Asheboro

• Asheboro Courier (Asheboro, N.C.) – 1902

Asheville

• Asheville Daily Citizen (Asheville, N.C.) – 1891-1900
• The Citizen (Asheville, N.C.) – 1900
• Asheville Citizen (Asheville, N.C.) – 1906-1907

Belhaven

• Belhaven Journal (Belhaven, N.C.) – 1916-1923
• Beaufort-Hyde News (Belhaven, N.C.) – 1966-1980

Brevard

• Brevard News (Brevard, N.C.) – 1917

Charlotte

• Daily Charlotte Observer (Charlotte, N.C.) – 1893-1897

Cherryville

• The Eagle (Cherryville, N.C.) – 1915-1919

Clayton

• The Clayton News (Clayton, N.C.) – 1914-1966

Concord

• The Bright Mason (Concord, N.C.) – 1873-1874

Cooleemee

• The Cooleemee Journal (Cooleemee, N.C.) – 1956-1962

Creedmoor

• Creedmoor Times-News (Creedmoor, N.C.) – 1913-1914

Durham

• The Morning Herald (Durham, N.C.) – 1913-1914

East Bend

• The Yadkin Ripple (East Bend, N.C.) – 1902

Elizabeth City

• The Advance (Elizabeth City, N.C.) – 1916
• The Daily Advance (Elizabeth City, N.C.) – 1916-1917

Forest City

• The Free Press (Forest City, N.C.) – 1913

Gastonia

• The Gastonia Gazette (Gastonia, N.C.) – 1908

Goldsboro

• Goldsboro Daily Argus (Goldsboro, N.C.) – 1905-1920

Greenville

• King’s Weekly (Greenville, N.C.) – 1903-1905

Kenly

• The Kenly Observer (Kenly, N.C.) – 1927

Leaksville

• Leaksville Herald (Leaksville, N.C.) – 1861

Lenoir

• The Semi-Weekly News (Lenoir, N.C.) – 1900
• The Weekly News (Lenoir, N.C.) – 1902-1905
• The Lenoir Weekly News (Lenoir, N.C.) – 1905-1915
• The Lenoir News (Lenoir, N.C.) – 1906, 1914-16

Lincolnton

• Lincoln Progress (Lincolnton, N.C.) – 1874
• The Lincoln Journal (Lincolnton, N.C.) – 1903-1906

Lumberton

• The Robesonian (Lumberton, N.C.) – 1903-1923

Mocksville

• The Davie Times (Mocksville, N.C.) – 1902

Mooresville

• The Mooresville Enterprise (Mooresville, N.C.) – 1901-1902

Moravian Falls

• The Yellow-Jacket (Moravian Falls, N.C.) – 1928

New Bern

• The Sun (New Bern, N.C.) – 1911

Raleigh

• The News & Observer (Raleigh, N.C.) – 1906-1923

Red Springs

• The Farmer and Scottish Chief (Red Springs, N.C.) – 1890

Reidsville

• The Weekly Review (Reidsville, N.C.) – 1889-1899
• The Reidsville Review (Reidsville, N.C.) – 1899-1923

Rocky Mount

• Rocky Mount Mail (Rocky Mount, N.C.) – 1875-1876

Rutherfordton

• The Sun (Rutherfordton, N.C.) – 1911

Salisbury

• Salisbury Evening Post (Salisbury, N.C.) – 1905-1923
• Salisbury Post (Salisbury, N.C.) – 1908-1912
• Yadkin Valley Herald (Salisbury, N.C.) – 1918-1919

Selma

• The Johnstonian (Selma, N.C.) – 1925

Shelby

• The Cleveland Star (Shelby, N.C.) – 1902-1904
• The Highlander (Shelby, N.C.) – 1912-1920

Smithfield

• Johnston County Record (Smithfield, N.C.) – 1933-1934
• The Smithfield Herald (Smithfield, N.C.) – 1977

Spruce Pines & Burnsville

• The Tri-County News (Spruce Pine & Burnsville, N.C.) – 1940

Statesville

• Statesville Landmark (Statesville, N.C.) – 1874-1875
• The Landmark (Statesville, N.C.) – 1875-1903
• The Statesville American (Statesville, N.C.) – 1878
• The Statesville Mascot (Statesville, N.C.) – 1902

Taylorsville

• The Mountain Scout (Taylorsville, N.C.) – 1902-1906

Washington

• Washington Dispatch (Washington, N.C.) – 1861
• The North State Press (Washington, N.C.) – 1880
• The Washington Gazette (Washington, N.C.) – 1884-1887
• The Evening Messenger (Washington, N.C.) – 1896-1899
• The Gazette-Messenger (Washington, N.C.) – 1900-1904
• Washington Progress (Washington, N.C.) – 1930-1931

Waynesville

• Waynesville Courier (Waynesville, N.C.) – 1914-1915
• The Carolina Mountaineer and Waynesville Courier (Waynesville, N.C.) – 1921

Wilmington

• Wilmington Weekly Chronicle (Wilmington, N.C.) – 1840-1841
• Wilmington Chronicle (Wilmington, N.C.) – 1841-1845
• The Daily Journal (Wilmington, N.C.) – 1851-1852
• The Daily Wilmington Herald (Wilmington, N.C.) – 1866

Windsor

• Windsor Ledger (Windsor, N.C.) – 1913

Winston-Salem

• The Western Sentinel (Winston-Salem, N.C.) – 1903-1922
• Twin City Sentinel (Winston-Salem, N.C.) – 1922

If you want to see all of the newspapers we have available on DigitalNC, you can find them here. Thanks to UNC-Chapel Hill Libraries for permission to and support for adding all of this content as well as the content to come. We also thank the North Caroliniana Society for providing funding to support staff working on this project.

This week we have tens of thousands of issues up on DigitalNC! In this batch we have over 1,000 issues of The High Point Enterprise and Lenoir News-Topic, more than 4,000 issues of The Charlotte Observer and The News & Observer, 5,000 issues of the Goldsboro Daily Argus, over 5,500 issues of The Kinston Free Press, 7,000 issues of the Asheville Citizen, and more!

Over the next year, we’ll be adding millions of newspaper images to DigitalNC. These images were originally digitized a number of years ago in a partnership with Newspapers.com. That project focused on scanning microfilmed papers published before 1923 held by the North Carolina Collection in Wilson Special Collections Library. While you can currently search all of those pre-1923 issues on Newspapers.com, over the next year we will also make them available in our newspaper database as well. This will allow you to search that content alongside the 2 million pages already on our site – all completely open access and free to use.

This week’s additions include:

Asheville

• The Daily Citizen (Asheville, N.C.) – 1889
• The Asheville Citizen (Asheville, N.C.) – 1889
• Asheville Daily Citizen (Asheville, N.C.) – 1891-1899
• Asheville Citizen (Asheville, N.C.) – 1900-1922

Charlotte

• The Charlotte Journal (Charlotte, N.C.) – 1835-1851
• The Charlotte News (Charlotte, N.C.) – 1892
• Charlotte Daily Observer (Charlotte, N.C.) – 1911-1916
• The Charlotte Observer (Charlotte, N.C.) – 1916-1922
• The Charlotte Chronicle (Charlotte, N.C.) – 1891
• Semi-Weekly Charlotte Observer (Charlotte, N.C.) – 1892
• Weekly Charlotte Observer (Charlotte, N.C.) – 1892

Concord

• The Sun (Concord, N.C.) – 1881-1882

Davidson

• The Davidsonian (Davidson, N.C.) – 1921-1926

Durham

• The Morning Herald (Durham, N.C.) – 1913-1919
• Durham Morning Herald (Durham, N.C.) – 1919-1921

Edenton

• The Edenton Gazette, and North-Carolina General Advertiser (Edenton, N.C.) – 1818

Elizabeth City

• Tar Heel (Elizabeth City N.C.) – 1911
• The Weekly Advance (Elizabeth City, N.C.) – 1911-1913
• The Advance (Elizabeth City, N.C.) – 1913
• The Daily Advance (Elizabeth City, N.C.) – 1919-1923

Elkin

• The Elkin Times (Elkin, N.C.) – 1895-1897

Fayetteville

• The American (Fayetteville, N.C.) – 1814-1818
• Fayetteville Gazette (Fayetteville, N.C.) – 1820-1822

Gastonia

• Gastonia Daily Gazette (Gastonia, N.C.) – 1922

Goldsboro

• Goldsboro Daily Argus (Goldsboro, N.C.) – 1885-1922

Graham

• The Alamance Gleaner (Graham, N.C.) – 1896-1910

Greensboro

• Greensboro Daily News (Greensboro, N.C.) – 1921

Halifax

• Halifax Compiler (Halifax, N.C.) – 1818

Hickory

• Hickory Mercury (Hickory, N.C.) – 1892-1897
• The Hickory Times (Hickory, N.C.) – 1896
• The Times-Mercury (Hickory, N.C.) – 1898

High Point

• The High Point Enterprise (High Point, N.C.) – 1918-1922

Kinston

• The Daily Free Press (Kinston, N.C.) – 1898-1923
• The Kinston Free Press (Kinston, N.C.) – 1899-1923

Lenoir

• The Caldwell Messenger (Lenoir, N.C.) – 1875-1876
• The Lenoir Topic (Lenoir, N.C.) – 1876-1919
• The Lenoir News, and The Lenoir Topic (Lenoir, N.C.) – 1919
• Lenoir News-Topic (Lenoir, N.C.) – 1919-1924
• The Semi-Weekly News (Lenoir, N.C.) – 1898

Raleigh

• The News and Observer (Raleigh, N.C.) – 1880-1890
• The News & Observer (Raleigh, N.C.) – 1906-1914

Shelby

• The Cleveland Star (Shelby, N.C.) – 1905-1923

Wilmington

• Wilmington Chronicle (Wilmington, N.C.) – 1845-1851
• The Wilmington Morning Star (Wilmington, N.C.) – 1922

If you want to see all of the newspapers we have available on DigitalNC, you can find them here. Thanks to UNC-Chapel Hill Libraries for permission to and support for adding all of this content as well as the content to come. We also thank the North Caroliniana Society for providing funding to support staff working on this project.

This week we have another 34 newspaper titles up on DigitalNC, including four from Carthage, North Carolina: Former home to the Tyson & Jones Buggy Company.

The “Jones” of the Tyson & Jones Buggy Company was William T. Jones, who was born into slavery and became one of the most well-respected and wealthiest businessmen in Carthage. Born near Elizabethtown in 1833, his father was a plantation owner and his mother was an enslaved person. Prior to the Civil War, he was given his freedom and moved to Fayetteville to work as a painter for a carriage company. It was there that his work was noticed by Thomas Tyson, who convinced him to come to Carthage to work for his fledgling operation in 1857, and by 1859 Jones was made a partner in that company. In 1861, Jones joined the Confederate Army and was subsequently captured by Union forces. While imprisoned at Fort Delaware, Jones began making moonshine from potato peelings and bread crusts and selling it to the Union guards. After Sherman’s March left much of the area devastated, it was the Jones’ moonshine money that allowed the Tyson & Jones Buggy Company to restart production, employing many struggling locals and helping to restart the local economy.

Even though Jones was a captain of industry, North Carolina House of Representatives candidate, and Sunday School teacher with a legacy that lives on in Carthage, it was not widely acknowledged that he wasn’t White. It wasn’t until recently that him being a Black man was recognized as fact and his full story was told.

Over the next year, we’ll be adding millions of newspaper images to DigitalNC. These images were originally digitized a number of years ago in a partnership with Newspapers.com. That project focused on scanning microfilmed papers published before 1923 held by the North Carolina Collection in Wilson Special Collections Library. While you can currently search all of those pre-1923 issues on Newspapers.com, over the next year we will also make them available in our newspaper database as well. This will allow you to search that content alongside the 2 million pages already on our site – all completely open access and free to use.

This week’s additions include:

• The Central Times (Dunn, N.C.) – 1892-1894
• The Albemarle Chronicle (Albemarle, N.C.) – 1912
• The Chronicle (Albemarle, N.C.) – 1912-1915
• Daily Concord Standard (Concord, N.C.) – 1898-1899
• The Chatham Record (Pittsboro, N.C.) – 1899
• Moore Gazette (Carthage, N.C.) – 1881-1885
• The Carthaginian (Carthage, N.C.) – 1878
• Moore Index (Carthage, N.C.) – 1879-1880
• The Southern Protectionist (Carthage, N.C.) – 1888
• The Sampson Democrat (Clinton, N.C.) – 1920-1921
• The High Point Enterprise (High Point, N.C.) – 1893-1915
• Daily Enterprise (High Point, N.C.) – 1906-1908
• The Patriot and Times (Greensboro, N.C.) – 1869
• The Greensboro Patriot (Greensboro, N.C.) – 1869-1918
• Greensboro Patriot (Greensboro, N.C.) – 1880
• The Daily Evening Patriot (Greensboro, N.C.) – 1890
• The Watchman and Harbinger (Greensboro, N.C.) – 1863-1864
• The New North State (Greensboro, N.C.) – 1878
• The North State (Greensboro, N.C.) – 1878-1885
• The Beacon (Greensboro, N.C.) – 1880
• The Rowan Record (China Grove, N.C.) – 1909-1919
• China Grove Record (Salisbury, N.C.) – 1920-1925
• Jackson County Journal (Sylva, N.C.) – 1913-1919
• The Ansonian (Wadesboro, N.C.) – 1907-1908
• The Pender Chronicle (Burgaw, N.C.) – 1912-1943
• Harnett County News (Lillington, N.C.) – 1919-1922
• Goldsboro’ News (Goldsboro, N.C.) – 1867-1873
• Goldsboro Daily Messenger (Goldsboro, N.C.) – 1869
• Goldsboro Daily Argus (Goldsboro, N.C.) – 1911
• The Evening Review (Wilmington, N.C.) – 1875-1877
• The Morning Star (Wilmington, N.C.) – 1881
• The Tribune (Henderson, N.C.) – 1873-1876
• The Henderson Pioneer (Hendersonville, N.C.) – 1866-1867
• The Daily Herald (Hendersonville, N.C.) – 1911-1912

If you want to see all of the newspapers we have available on DigitalNC, you can find them here. Thanks to UNC-Chapel Hill Libraries for permission to and support for adding all of this content as well as the content to come. We also thank the North Caroliniana Society for providing funding to support staff working on this project.